So the merge window is closed, and -rc1 is out there now.

Talking about the merge window: there were a _lot_ of trees that left their pull requests pretty dang late. Not everything I merged yesterday and today were late pull requests, but a lot of it was. I'm used to have a fairly busy last day of the merge window, but it was a busy last two days this time - definitely worse than usual.

The two-week merge window is _not_ supposed to be "one day merge window after thirteen days of silence". In fact, I think that next time around I'll make the merge window be 11-12 days instead, and people who try to 

game the system and do a last-minute pull request will get a surprise, and get unceremoniously bumped to 2.6.35 instead.

Anyway, apart from that grumbling, it's been a fairly normal merge window, I think. According to git dirstat (which got fixed to give more accurate numbers), the distribution of changes is pretty much

with about half of that final "everything else" third being arch stuff, and half being random other things (firmware, fs, net).

Notable additions? There's a number of drivers, and depending on which ones you use, you'll find them more or less notable. I personally like how I finally got to merge the Nouveau code, for example. Others will care

about other things.

Please give it a good testing, so that we can start figuring out the inevitably regressions,

Linus